Cheryl Wetzstein

Cheryl Wetzstein, a Washington Times staff member since 1985, is manager of special sections in The Washington Times' Advertising and Marketing Department.

Previously, she spent 30 years as a Washington Times news reporter, covering national domestic policy, in addition to being a features writer, environmental and consumer affairs reporter, and assistant business editor.

Beginning in 1994, Mrs. Wetzstein worked exclusively on welfare and family issues such as child support enforcement, abstinence and sex education, child welfare, sexually transmitted diseases, marriage, divorce, cohabiting and gay marriage.

She has won several newspaper awards, including 1977 Cub Reporter of the Year and 1983 Heart of New York award, both from the New York Press Club.

Articles by Cheryl Wetzstein

Saying a Texas law regulating abortion is making women doubt that abortion is still legal in the state, the leader of an abortion clinic network is urging the Supreme Court to intervene.
Published
September 3, 2015

Leaked data about millions of subscribers to the "married-but-dating" site, Ashley Madison.com, has prompted warnings about pornography use and sex addiction, as well as hope for post-adultery recovery for marriages.
Published
August 26, 2015

Congressional Democrats have opened their own investigation into the Planned Parenthood videos -- but into the group that took the footage in which officials haggle over the prices of organs and discuss keeping a baby alive so his brain can be harvested.
Published
August 20, 2015

In an undercover video released Wednesday, a former technician for a tissue-harvesting company details how an aborted baby was kept alive so that its heart could be harvested at a California Planned Parenthood facility, raising more legal questions about the group's practices.
Published
August 19, 2015

Spurred by a series of undercover videos exposing the harvesting and distribution of post-abortive fetal body parts, pro-life activists are organizing more than 200 rallies at Planned Parenthood clinics and a coast-to-coast effort to reach members of Congress at their home offices this week.
Published
August 16, 2015

Some 81 House Democrats have urged President Obama to tell agencies that the Helms amendment does not ban all U.S. foreign aid-related abortions, but permits those in cases of rape, incest and when the life of the mother is endangered.
Published
August 12, 2015

Numerous religious institutions and 16 states filed briefs with the Supreme Court on Monday, urging it to take up the case of a seminary and two religious universities that do not want to cover abortion-causing products in their employee health insurance.
Published
August 10, 2015

Religious leaders Billy Graham, Rick Warren and Samuel Rodriquez have been included on a list of 40 people who "radically changed the world," compiled by Charisma magazine, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this month.
Published
August 6, 2015

Morning school bells are going off too early in too many U.S. public schools, raising the risks for poor academic performances and health problems, the government said Thursday.
Published
August 6, 2015

Pope Francis perked up ears again Wednesday when he advised church leadership to do more to "take care" of and have "open doors" for Catholics whose marriages have failed, prompting the latest round of speculation -- both hopeful and worrying -- that he may loosen the church's ancient rules on divorce and remarriage.
Published
August 5, 2015

A fifth undercover video released Tuesday captures a Planned Parenthood official suggesting that "specimens" from an aborted fetus be shipped separately to boost reimbursements.
Published
August 4, 2015

Iran's president, who reached his second anniversary in office Monday, was again implored to release prisoners of conscience -- including an Iranian-American pastor -- and improve conditions for freedom of religion.
Published
August 3, 2015

A conservative legal defense firm Monday filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against Fox Sports on behalf of former professional football player and broadcaster Craig James.
Published
August 3, 2015

A California judge's order blocking temporarily the release of some undercover footage targeting Planned Parenthood failed to slow down the pro-life group behind the searing and increasingly graphic videos targeting the family planning and abortion giant.
Published
July 30, 2015